Futures and Options

Glitch halts Tokyo futures trading

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008

THE Tokyo Stock Exchange has suspended futures and options trading due to a computer system glitch, the latest in a series of technical problems.

NYMEX Reports June 2008 Volume Averaged 1.826 Million Contracts Per Day - NYMEX Electronic Trading Volume Increases 40% - COMEX Electronic Trading Volume Increases 65%

Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008

NYMEX Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMX), the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., the world's largest physical commodities futures and options exchange, today announced that average daily volume was 1.826 million contracts for June 2008, a 29% increase from 1.414 million contracts per day in June 2007.

• NYMEX Reports June 2008 Volume Averaged 1.826 Million Contracts Per Day - PR News Wire

New Symbology Data Feed For Compliant MiFiD Transaction Reporting

Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008

FOW TRADEdata today announced the availability through its Xymbology service of Alternative Instrument Identification (AII) symbology for prescribed European futures and options markets under MiFiD's mandatory transaction reporting requirements.

U.S. Weather Cities Cooling Degree Day (CDD) Monthly And Seasonal Strip Futures And Options And Weekly Average Temperature Index Futures And Options

Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008

The attached advisory contains new product information for the U.S. Weather Cities Cooling Degree Day (CDD) Monthly and Seasonal Strip Futures and Options and Weekly Average Temperature Index Futures and Options contract.

Commodity prices: speculators are NOT the problem

Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008

More importantly, neither index funds nor other speculators ever buy any physical oil. Instead, they buy futures and options which they settle with a cash payment when they fall due. In essence, these are bets on which way the oil price will move. Since the real currency of such contracts is cash, rather than barrels [...]

Pan Asian Commodity Exchange by 2009

2point6billion.com (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008

Plans are afoot to build and trade on a pan Asian commodity derivatives exchange by 2009 in Singapore. The new exchange, called the Singapore Mercantile Exchange, will provide a platform for futures and options trading on precious metals, base metals, energy, agricultural commodities, currency pairs, carbon credits and commodity indices said the Indian firm, [...]

• Singapore Mercantile Exchange launched to facilitate trading of commodity derivatives - Chanel News Asia
• Singapore launching mercantile exchange - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

BM&FBOVESPA Ends June With A 6.6% Increase In Its Derivatives Markets

Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008

BM&FBOVESPA's derivatives market (including futures and options) registered a volume of 35.4 million contracts traded in June 2008, a 6.6% increase in comparison to the same period last year (33.3 million). The average daily trading volume also rose, with 1.69 million contacts, 1.5% higher than the 1.6 million registered in June 2007. Financial volume also increased: BRL2.4 trillion, a 6.6% growth...

London Metal Exchange Announces Record Half Year Trading Volumes

Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008

The London Metal Exchange (LME) announces record trading volumes for the first half of 2008. Over 54 million lots traded on the Exchange from January to the end of June across Futures and Options. This represents an increase of 17.5% on 2007 figures, and a turnover of $5.6 trillion in notional value.

Forex And Commodities Futures And Options. What To Know Before You Trade.

TopForex.info (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008

Forex And Commodities Futures And Options. What To Know Before You Trade. The popularity of trading futures and options has been growly rapidly for several years. The ease of accessing constantly updated data online has prompted an increased fever by day traders to attempt to be successful and make money in this [...]

ECX Monthly Market Update & EUA Volume - June 2008

Mondo Visione (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008

June Highlights : ECX trading volumes reset the scales in June and substantially broke all previous records with 295 Mt, 223% higher than June 2007. The previous monthly record was April 2008 when 191 Mt traded. Average daily volumes in EUA and CER futures and options climbed to 14 Mt (14,039 lots). ECX recorded its highest ever daily trading volume on 6th June when over 34 Mt traded (62% CERs and...

CME Group expands link with Nasdaq

Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008

CME Group Inc. unveiled an expanded link with Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., under which CME will receive an extension on its exclusive rights to offer futures and options on futures contracts based on Nasdaq indices for an additional seven-year period, through 2019.

MF Global falls 19% after pricing $300 mln sale of new securities

Market Watch (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008

MF Global shares slump another 19% after the futures and options broker says it priced two offerings of new securities to raise $300 million.

Friday Options Outlook: MF, HRB, WB, XRT, MER, C, PMCS, NRG

Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008

Rebecca Engmann Darst co-authored this article. MF Global (MF) – Options in the country’s largest futures and options broker, MF Global, saw a 24.4% spike in implied volatility this morning amid yet another ruinous selloff for its shares, down nearly 18% to $7.03. With the reading now in at 150%, option traders clearly feel these are choppy waters for the brokerage, with more than a third added price...

MF Global Prices $300 Million Sale

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008

MF Global, the nation's largest futures and options broker, priced $300 million in convertible stock and notes it is selling to repay a bridge loan due in December.

MF Global Prices Offerings of $150 Million of Convertible Senior Notes and $150 Million of Convertible Preference Shares

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008

NEW YORK - MF Global (NYSE: MF), a leading broker of exchange-listed futures and options, today announced that it has priced an offering of $150 million of its 9.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2038 and an offering of $150 million of its 9.75% Non-Cumulative Convertible Preference Shares,